2024-02-06 20:16:02 ¶ ●

For all that Hannibal exhibits OCPD tendencies, I think he’s actually quite capable of indifference as well. For example, I think if he and Will were to live together, he wouldn’t be too hung up on his previous standards of life. I think Hannibal is surprisingly adaptible simply because he can exert that sort of control over himself. He doesn’t need to set that book parallel to the edge of the desk; he does it because he can. How to say, he isn’t compulsive. He is stubborn, but if he has to let that stubbornness go to achieve a goal, he will. He is like the antithesis to OCD. He doesn’t let anything dictate what and how he should interact with something. If Will tracks in mud, he is sure Will will clean it up; that’s part of the reason why he likes Will. Will’s considerate and clean. If Chilton tracked in mud, Chilton would end up in a stew. This is all to say, to him, his lifestyle is a priority but it can also be made into a not-priority, because Hannibal is that self-possessed. But the standard for that to happen is singularly Will Graham.